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Initiate BT PAN connection from N900 to another N900

Hi,

Anyone has any idea how I can initiate a BT (Bluetooth) PAN connection from one N900 to another N900?

Looked around quite a few N900 BT PAN topics but could not find the answer I want. At least, they're not very clear.
I've only managed to make my N900 accept BT PAN connections from my laptop & do tethering based on another thread.
It's not faster than BT DUN though.. :(

So, BT PAN connection initiation anyone?

Best regards,

bozoid

Re: Initiate BT PAN connection from N900 to another N900

Well I dont know of a way to do it from the GUI, but you could make a script from the below and run it from QBC or launcher etc.

See the little python script in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_Bluetooth to get an idea. The one I use is this (I cant remember where it came from - I cant claim it as my own):

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python



import sys

import time

import dbus

from optparse import OptionParser, make_option



bus = dbus.SystemBus()



manager = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object("org.bluez", "/"), "org.bluez.Manager")



option_list = [

                make_option("-i", "--device", action="store",

                                type="string", dest="dev_id"),

                ]

parser = OptionParser(option_list=option_list)



(options, args) = parser.parse_args()



if options.dev_id:

        adapter_path = manager.FindAdapter(options.dev_id)

else:

        adapter_path = manager.DefaultAdapter()



adapter = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object("org.bluez", adapter_path), "org.bluez.Adapter")



if (len(args) < 1):

        print "Usage: %s <address> [service]" % (sys.argv[0])

        sys.exit(1)



address = args[0]



if (len(args) < 2):

        service = "panu"

else:

        service = args[1]



device = adapter.FindDevice(address)



network = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object("org.bluez", device), "org.bluez.Network")



iface = network.Connect(service)



print "Connected %s to %s" % (device, address)



#print "Press CTRL-C to disconnect"



try:

        time.sleep(100000000)

        print "Terminating connection"

except:

        pass



network.Disconnect()

You can run it with just one argument - the bluetooth mac of the destination device.

Works for me :)

Re: Initiate BT PAN connection from N900 to another N900

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for!
Had thought I'd need some dbus magic (which only almost work).
Appreciate it lots. :)

Only thing I'd change in that script is the top line to this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

Best regards,

bozoid

Re: Initiate BT PAN connection from N900 to another N900

Ok, found the other device's address with hciconfig (run on the other device with bt enabled.
I have run the script with the address, no error message.

May sound stupid but...
What do we do now to connect the devices/ send files etc?

Thanks!

Re: Initiate BT PAN connection from N900 to another N900